Broadway’s feted Gypsy comes with its challenges
"Queanbeyan Players is to be applauded for taking on the challenges and providing a welcome opportunity to experience one of Broadway’s most celebrated musicals." BILL STEPHENS reviews Gypsy.
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Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports that the "super-ambitious" Queanbeyan Players are embarking on a production of the musical Gypsy.
Performing in both English and French, singers Milko Foucault-Larché and Corinne Andrew are returning to The Street Theatre with Paris After Dark, billed as evoking the atmosphere of “a true Parisian soirée”, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Youth Cabaret, a developing community theatre organisation, has chosen an ambitious cult horror musical for this year’s uproarious production The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, reviews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Cabaret kids turn on the horror – and comedy
The cult horror-comedy with the enticing title, The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, is coming to the Mill Theatre in early October, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Seventy years on, this ‘Fair Lady’ still dazzles
Julie Andrews' recreation of the original My Fair Lady remains as gasp-inducing as ever, with Claire Lyon a bewitching Eliza and its celebrated designs still drawing applause, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
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Frozen delivers a blizzard of stage magic
From Elsa's show-stopping transformation to a scene-stealing sauna, Free-Rain Theatre Company delivers Frozen on an impressive scale, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
It was no surprise when Canberra comic actor Joe Dinn was cast as Olaf the Snowman in Free-Rain Theatre’s forthcoming production of Disney’s Frozen at The Q, writes HELEN MUSA.
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been adapted countless times, but rarely with as much pizzazz as in Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of).
IAN McLEAN reviews the clever, witty and fast-paced musical theatre production - I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change - takes its audience on a "fabulously entertaining rollercoaster of emotions with belly laughs aplenty".
Musical adaptation Heathers satirises 1980s high-school films with an uneasy blend of comedy and cruelty that makes for disturbing viewing, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
One of Canberra’s best-known stage performers, Janie Lawson, is about to make her directorial debut with the boutique musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
At the age of 36, Creswick feels he is facing middle age and, just as he did with his fatherhood show, he's been out interviewing people, this time a carefully selected group of senior artists, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The revival of Graeme Murphy’s exquisite staging of Franz Lehár’s 120-year-old operetta, The Merry Widow, at the Sydney Opera House powerfully demonstrates why it was destined to become an audience favourite, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
A post-covid 50th birthday party conversation about middle age and menopause was the catalyst behind the musical Middle Raged, directed by Priscilla Jackman, reviews SAMARA PURNELL.
Middle Raged – A Musical Meltdown, about to premiere at The Playhouse, is the brainchild of two former Canberrans, performer Queenie van de Zandt and writer-producer Tiffany Noack, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Broadway adaptation of Beetlejuice has been axed midway through an Australian tour with rising costs to blame.
"Audiences never seem to tire of the epic scale of its uplifting story nor of the glorious score in which every song is a classic." BILL STEPHENS reviews the Queanbeyan Players' new production of Les Miserables.
“No grand sets, no spectacle, just the truth behind the fairytales,” director Jarrad West promises of their “unplugged” version of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, reports HELEN MUSA.
